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• Adolphus Staelens, Zaffelare
• Adriana Gabriella Verkuijl Quakkelaar, Vlissingen († 1941)
• Adriana Zacharina den Dekker, Giessendam († 1925)
• Aalt van Diermen, Ermelo († 1945)
• Amelia Verlent, Kieldrecht
• Anna Maria Johanna Maria de Kort, Ginneken, Nederland († 1863)
• Adrianus van Helden, Willemstad, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1863)
• Albertus Hendrikus VERBEEK, Dieren (Rheden) († 1910)
• Adriana Maria van Eck, zeist († 1944)
• Adriana Maria van Eck, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 1944)

• Afke Pieters Witteveen, Akmarijp
• Bernardus van der Nol (0), 's-Gravenzande
• Christine Weyandt (73), Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Adrianus van der Leeuw (24), Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Allegonda Jansen (3), Arnhem
• Catharina Christina Amadio (41), Vlissingen
• Arij Ottosz SCHAAP (68), Cillaarshoek
• Christoffel Banning (50), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardina van Oijen (65), Leiden
• Adriana van Breda (65), Tilburg

• 1852 » Johannes François Snelleman, Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer († 1938)
• 1853 » René Bazin, French author and academic († 1932)
• 1854 » José Yves Limantour, Mexican financier and politician, Mexican Secretary of Finance († 1935)
• 1859 » William Stephens, American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California († 1944)
• 1863 » Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records († 1957)
• 1864 » Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician († 1945)
• 1867 » Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist († 1940)
• 1869 » Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist († 1942)
• 1872 » Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1873 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer († 1953)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Klaas
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Aaltje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Trijntje
14. Neeltje
15. Elizabeth
16. Mary

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
• February 10 » American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• April 7 » American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
• September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
• September 19 » American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.
• November 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

The temperature on December 26, 1862 was about 5.9 °C. The air pressure was 19 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.